In an EXIT procedure, the baby is partially delivered and still attached to the umbilical cord, with the mother functioning as her baby's heart and lung machine so that doctors can perform ...

Lucille was stabilized with prostin, a medication critical to keeping her ductus arteriosus open — a vessel that helps ...

If the baby’s heart or lung didn’t develop properly, it can be a contributing factor that causes hydrops fetalis. Birth defects and congenital anomalies. About 3 to 4 percent of babies are ...

In 1952, Gibbon, then at Thomas Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, used a heart-lung machine to operate on a 15-month ...

HEART-LUNG MACHINE is a VR horror game designed to create an immersive and intense experience. Players find themselves in an abandoned underground complex, where they must navigate dark corridors ...

Texas Children's Hospital North Austin Campus performs surgery to remove baby's lung mass during birth while still attached ...

Using a machine like a ventilator to pump more oxygen into the baby’s lungs can irritate the airways and scar the still-fragile air sacs that line the lungs. High levels of oxygen can cause more ...

The staff at C.S. Mott Children's Hospital in Ann Arbor performed CPR for 60 minutes and then put Lev'Veon on a heart-lung bypass machine called extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, or ECMO, when ...

A heart-lung machine allows a person to survive heart surgery that requires the heart to stop, while ECMO assists the heart and lungs when severe illness affects them. Read on to learn more about ...

The rate of 1.8% for heart defects is about six times the normal average, said Dr. Taussig and Dr. Catherine A. Neill. Blue-baby mothers also had more spontaneous abortions (miscarriages) than the ...

A BABY who was born with her heart outside her body has undergone a groundbreaking operation to protect the fragile organ. Vanellope Hope Wilkins, now seven, beat eight-million-to-one odds after sh… ...